Art Project #38: Making Minecraft T-Shirts

I had planned on helping the younger two boys a creeper shirt so I bought them some plain green shirts but knew Ian would want something on black (if he wanted to participate at all),

When I pulled out all the supplies Alec informed me he wanted to make a Minecraft Ocelot instead. I told him if he could draw or design it I could help him paint it.

We decided to use some blank square tiles to help us lay out our designs and then tape around them using painters tape. Like this:

Evan's creeper face

Taping around the squares

The completed face

Ian just needed a big square taped off

Alec's ocelot face

Once we had everything taped we moved outside onto the patio and the boys started painting. I wasn't sure if the paint would bleed under the painters tape or not so I cautioned them to paint from the outside (taped areas) to the inside; so that they would not be pushing the tape up at all.

Once they were finished we set them aside to dry. Once dry Evan's was all done but the other two boys needed to either remove tape or add new pieces to put the next coat of color on... like this:

We added tape on top of the white square to make the skeleton face.

After each coat we put the shirts in the sun to dry and decided if we needed to add detail anywhere else. Alec's shirt took a few different color coats; the yellow face, the brown spots and the nose.

Waiting for the paint to dry so we can remove the last bit of tape and paint his nose

Once they were completed we let them dry for 24 hours and then turning the shirts inside out I heat set them with a flat iron. Then we kept them turned inside out and washed and dried them. They've held up to a few washings already!

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